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5 Ways We Can Improve Your Game This May

The season is well underway, the sun is coming out on a daily basis and golf courses are beginning to look their best for the summer ahead. But why are you not playing your best golf? Here is 5 ways we can improve your golf this May, ready for the summer.

Golf Lessons

Yes, it’s obvious, golf lessons will help you play better golf, but that’s not all. Our coaching team are passionate about helping you make the necessary changes to your game to help you maximise your potential. It’s not just about the 30 or 60 minutes you spend with the coach. They will invest time into ensuring you leave happy and commit to being available by text, email or for a general chat to help you continue to stay on the right track following a lesson. We have packages available and the team are on hand daily to talk to you about your needs and goals. Other than just helping you hit the ball better our coaches will:

  • Offer ongoing support
  • Help your mental approach to the game
  • Give you clear direction with practice plans
  • Share drills and exercises to ensure post lesson practice is helping
  • Create a clear blueprint to improvement

First timers can enjoy lesson one at 50% OFF, whilst returning customers can enjoy £10 OFF one lesson in May. Learn more about our team here.

Club Fitting

Are you 100% sure your clubs are right for you? Straight off the rack golf clubs are great, but not for everyone! Every golfer is different, from size to technique and ability meaning every golfer will need clubs specific to their needs (which, for some may just be off the rack!) from the club type, flexibility, loft and lie and so on.

Our fitting service is completely FREE because we want to ensure all our customers find out what is right for them. The right equipment will have a huge impact on the way you play the game and therefore is one of our 5 fixes this May. Book in your local AFGolfStore and enjoy a FREE fit to see what works best for you.

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Loft & Lie

Did you know, when practicing on hard surfaces including mats, in time your loft and lie angles will begin to alter. It’s not uncommon to hear golfers say comments such as “my 7iron goes the same distance as my 8iron”, and low and behold we discover the loft and lie angles have adjusted causing gapping issues as well as strike and direction issues. We offer a loft and lie service that will allow you to hit shots whilst we check all of your clubs, making corrections where necessary to ensure your clubs are offering the gapping distances you were promised on purchase. Discover more here

Gapping

This is something we encourage all golfers to be doing at least twice a year. A gapping allows us identify how far the ball goes with each club ensuring the gaps between clubs become consistent. By knowing how far you actually hit a golf ball with each club will allow you to hit more greens and save shots! remove the guess work. We encourage an early season gapping for the warmer conditions and again later in the year if you enjoy winter (colder) golf. Gapping sessions are available over all 3 stores, 7 days a week. Learn more here

Talk To Us

We love to talk golf! We are here to help our customers improve, not just serve and say goodbye. Pop in and see us and ask us questions. Ensuring you get the best out of your game is our passion, from talking technique to discovering the perfect length tee peg, we leave no stone unturned. You can find us here

So if you are keen to improve this May, there are 5 key options to help you get the summer golfing season off to the best start!

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AFGolfStore’s Masters Moments

It is that time of year again! The sun is beginning to shine, the course is getting more colour and the greens are getting faster and we’re playing more golf. The season has begun and now we can look forward to the first major of the year. This is ‘AFGolfStore’s Masters Moments’.

After the 2020 Masters was played in November, we had a very short wait for the 2021 edition in April, which bought along so much excitement with back-to-back Masters. The wait this time around has felt like an eternity and the excitement for the new season of golf is again, beginning to ramp up. The thoughts of watching the back 9 on Sunday, will he or won’t he avoid water on 12, can he win it? The wait is still on to see if Tiger Woods can make it for this years event, however whilst we wait, let’s take a look back at some of the memorable moments in the Masters, of which, Tiger brings us a moment of magic!

We could go on for weeks about the best moments in the Masters and there have been so many that go back generations, but we are going to keep this to recent times and only 3 moments, so our younger readers can enjoy the trip down memory lane too, but, if you have a moment to share, let us hear it!

NUMBER ONE

We will begin with the big cat, Tiger Woods. Conversations just on his moments alone would go on forever, from the chip in on 16 to send him on the way to claim the 2005 Masters to the incredible 2001 win that saw Tiger gain his 4th Major in a row and become the first golfer to hold all 4 majors at one time, now known as the ‘Tiger Slam’. However, when we talk Tiger, we don’t have to go back very far to one of the most incredible comeback stories in golf and perhaps sporting history.

Tiger birdied three holes in a four-hole stretch, including a tap-in on the par-3 16th in the 2019 Masters. He played with calmness and made calculated decisions, seamlessly drawing his opponents into mistakes . Watching him hit his approach into 18, we could all breath a sigh of relief as we realised he was going to finally win again. After multiple operations and mountains to climb to get back to this moment of winning, it was just superb to see Tiger celebrate with his son, Charlie, years after we all watched him win for the first time and live out those exact celebrations with his father.

NUMBER TWO

Practising a shot over and over again until you can do it under pressure is one of the most rewarding skills as a golfer, however, what about hitting a shot you’ve never practiced, for a green jacket? Our number two is the mind blowing wedge in a play-off from Bubba Watson.  A 52-degree wedge on hole 10 from the trees… deep into the trees! From 144 yards, hooking 40 yards, to 15 feet of the hole! 10 years on, we are all still wondering, how!? Few would have even thought of the shot let alone been able to pull it off.

NUMBER THREE

In 2017, we all got behind Sergio Garcia. A fan favourite for so many years finally got the win that we all hoped he would. A win over England’s Justin Rose in a one hole playoff saw one of the more emotional celebrations in modern Masters history. 19 starts without a win, what once looked unlikely when he shot onto the tour. There was an expectation upon him to follow in Seve’s footsteps. Watching Sergio, for so many years, the nearly man. It almost felt like something was going to ruin the day for him and it would just be another occasion, but to see that putt roll in on 18 was a very special moment.

So there are three of AFGolfStore’s Masters Moments. What is your favourite?

Visit us in your local store, we love to chat all things golf.

 

 

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Improve Your Game In Yaxley

Our AFGolf Peterborough Store, opened in April and has since become a golfing hub to the local community, offering the widest range of branded club choice, a huge selection of apparel and a custom fitting service that we believe will transform anyone’s game.

Did you know, that you can also improve with tuition in our store? Jason Boast is our resident Senior Coach. With 25 years of experience, Jason has coached every level of golfer from beginner to the Cambridge county squads as well as regional playing professionals. His experience includes the course record around the old course at Gog Magog, with an incredible 60. So rest assured when seeking advice, it doesn’t come much better than the advice you will receive from Jason.

Renowned for his ability to dissect and correct issues in the game, simply yet effectively, Jason will help you improve your game in either of our performance studios.

  • Our Trackman swing studio offers customers incredible feedback in our virtual hitting bay. As you hit golf balls, Jason will use his coaching methods as well as the technology to identify your weaknesses and then quickly create a blue print to improved golf.
  • Our SAM PuttLab (Science and motion) putting studio will enhance your putting with incredible feedback and drills to get you holing more putts. 

Jason’s services are aimed at every golfer, whether you’re a beginner getting into the game and learning the fundamentals or if you’re an aspiring professional, Jason’s knowledge along with the power of technology will transform your game and leave you with a new level of confidence.

If you’re considering booking a lesson, you can do so with the added benefit of getting a £5 discount off a 30 minute up until July 11th. Use checkout code ‘Jason5’ when booking a 30 minute lessons with Jason.

There has never been a better time to improve in Peterborough. Check out a tip from Jason to improve your putting here.

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Have You Checked Your Start Line

There are 3 key skills in putting:

  • Start line
  • Distance control
  • Green reading

Practicing each skill will have a great impact on the most important part of the game. Remember, putting accounts for approximately 40-45% of golf. So nearly half of your game is played on the putting green. Why wouldn’t you practice this.

This weeks tip is related to the first of those 3 skills.

Start by placing two objects, such as two sleeves of golf balls either side of your putter head, as seen in the picture.

Now place a marker around a putter length away from the boxes, so you are ready to putt between the boxes (like a tunnel).

Once you begin putting you will gain instant feedback as to what your tendency is.

For example, as a right handed golfer, if you keep hitting the right box, your club face is open or your swing path could be playing a part by swing out.

Equally if you hit the left box your club face could be closed and or the path again is moving across the ball.

If this is the case, take your club back to the boxes as seen in the above picture and swing between the boxes so you can pay attention to the face and path.

Once you feel like you’re gaining good control of the start line and the ball is rolling between the two boxes, increase the difficulty and improve the skill set by moving the boxes closer together.

You can even move further away. The harder you make your practice the easier your next round will feel.

Just ensure you always practice with a purpose, use training aids and pay attention to the results. If you need help from here, Jason is on hand at our Peterborough Store to help further.

Putting is a huge part of AFGolfStore and something we pride ourselves on. We have free fittings available with the leading putter brands in the game from:

  • SIK Putters
  • Scotty Cameron
  • Taylormade
  • Odyssey
  • Ping

Jason Boast is also on hand 5 days a week to improve your game, including putting lessons on our state of the art indoor putting green, equipped with SAM Putt Lab technology and video analysis.

Try the drill and let us know how you get on!